HURON, Ohio -- An anti-censorship group is jumping into the fight over a sculpture removed by an Ohio college because it said the piece depicted a girl and her teacher in a sex act.
The sculpture by Edinboro, Pa., artist James Parlin was taken last week from an exhibit at Bowling Green State University's Firelands campus. It was placed in a closet at the school in Huron in northern Ohio because officials said it showed a female middle school student on her knees performing oral sex on a male teacher.
In a statement, the university called the art work "inappropriate."
The campus art gallery closed the entire exhibit in protest, and now the National Coalition Against Censorship is condemning the sculpture's removal, saying the action raises serious free-speech concerns.
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